favourable, that he said he found him in his grace's cause very toward, and desirous to find some good matter wherewith he might truly serve his grace to his contentation. This Bishop Stokesley, being by the cardinal not long before in the Star-chamber openly put to rebuke, and awarded to the Fleet, not brooking this contumelious usage and thinking that forasmuch as the cardinal, for lack of such forwardness in setting forth the king's divorce as his grace looked for, was out of his highness' favour, he had now a good occasion offered him to revenge his quarrel; farther to increase the king's displeasure towards him, busily travailed to invent some colourable device for the king's furtherance in that behalf: which, as before is remembered, he to his grace revealed, hoping thereby to bring the king to the better liking of himself and the more misliking of the cardinal whom his highness therefore soon after of his office displaced, and to Sir Thomas More, the rather to[1] move him to incline to his side, the same in his stead committed. Who between the Dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk being brought through Westminster Hall to his place in the Chancery, the Duke of Norfolk, in audience
- ↑ Thomas Morus, doctrina et probitate spectabilis vir, Cancellarius in ejus locum constituitur, neutiquam Regis causæ æquior.—Thuani Historia, Lib. I. p. 31.
1530. 21 Hen. VIII. Thomas More Miles Cancellarius Angliæ habuit magnum sigillum sibi liberatum die Lunæ, 25 Octob.—Chron. Series Cancell. per Gul. Dugdale.
